About

Education

  • High School: Needham B. Broughton High School in Raleigh, NC 2011-2015.
  • College: Washington and Lee University in Lexington, VA 2015-2019
    • Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science and Classics
    • 2018 President’s List, 2017 & 2018 ODAC Academic All-Conference
    • 3 Varsity Letters in Swimming

Selected Professional Experience

  • ClearRock Consulting
    • Senior Technical Consultant 2024-Present
  • Varigence, Inc
    • Senior Support Engineer 2023-2024
  • M&T Bank, Wealth & Institutional Client Services Division
    • Software Engineer 2019 – 2023
  • Washington and Lee University, IT Services
    • Student Technician 2016-2017

Full Work History

  • ClearRock Consulting
    • Senior Technical Consultant
      • Partner with small businesses to deliver highly-available, performant, responsive websites that effectively communicate their brand to potential clients.
      • Develop and maintain bespoke applications that help local businesses, craftsmen, and practitioners compete with regional, national, and global corporations.
  • Varigence, Inc
    • Senior Support Engineer
      • Collaborated with BimlFlex users from around the globe to reproduce and resolve reported difficulties.
      • Used support cases to generate Knowledge Base content, bug reports, and user stories so there would be fewer support cases in the future.
  • M&T Bank Wealth & Institutional Client Services Division
    • Software Engineer
      • Worked in an Agile team to develop an automated OCR mail processing application. This helped the business team expand capacity while reducing the incidence of data entry errors.
      • Delivered a collateral management system that helped the business group monitor assets of client banks, which secured the deposits of thousands of municipalities across four states.
  • Washington and Lee University
    • IT Services Student Technician
      • Assisted the IT Services Department Head in reclaiming usable components from machines that were scheduled for retirement.
      • Supported end-users with Windows 10 machines.
    • Computer Science Department Teaching Assistant
      • Helped CS 101 students think through the parameters and constraints in a problem set, then implement solutions using techniques such as pair programming.
    • Politics Department Summer Researcher
      • Used Virginia elections data to build time series databases, which were loaded in ArcGIS to analyze the effectiveness of the Voting Rights Act in improving the quality of representation.
  • City of Buena Vista
    • Community Planning and Development Intern
      • Worked with the city planner to modernize the property tax database.
      • Built GIS applications to display the locations of car accidents and blighted properties.
  • City of Raleigh Parks and Recreation
    • Shift Supervisor
      • Second key holder after the pool manager. Responsible for patron safety, scheduling guards, monitoring pool chemical levels, and counting the cash box at open and close.
    • Head Swim Coach
      • Worked with a staff of 5 assistant coaches to help over a hundred children between 6 and 15 years old to practice swimming skills and compete against other kids in the city.

Personal Projects, Interests & Skills

  • Mount Vernon Cemetery Rehabilitation
  • Genealogy Research
  • 3D Printing
  • Urban Narrative Reclamation
  • AWS Practitioner Certification
  • Linux & Open Source
  • Carolina Hurricanes Twitter Bot
  • Travel & Photography